"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."

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United States Marine Corps
Original Language: English

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David Glasgow Farragut, as quoted in The Boston Marine Barracks: A History, 1799–1974 (2015), by John R. Yates, Jr. and Thomas Yates, p. 14